Promotion of Road Safety by NCAP

in JAPAN

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

National Agency for Automotive Safety &Victims’ Aid

(NASVA)

October 30th 2014

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MLIT : Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

NTSEL : National Traffic Safety and Environment Laboratory

JASIC : Japan Automobile Standards Internationalization Center

Mitigation of roadtraffic accidents

Safety Regulations

JNCAPASV

Project

By MLIT

NTSEL By MLIT

NASVA

By MLIT

NTSEL

JASIC

1. Relationship between Ministry and NASVA

“We implement easy access environment for the public to choose safer car and

enhance their mind for safety. This is one of the main pillars of vehicles safety

measures, it will be necessary to enrich further more.” (Administrative Reform

Promotion Meeting, December 20, 2013)

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2. History of JNCAP

Test items

New Car Assessment

Ⅰ. Crash Safety

Full-overlap Frontal Collision Test

Offset Frontal Collision Test

Side Collision Test

Rear Impact Sled Test

Ⅱ. Pedestrian Protection

Head Protection Performance Test

Leg Protection Performance Test

Ⅲ. Passenger Seat Belt Reminder

Test

Ⅳ. Seat Belt Usability Test

Ⅴ. Braking Performance Test

Ⅵ. Advanced Safety Tech.

Assessment

Child Seat Assessment

’95 ’99 ’00 ’01 ’03 ’09

Overall evaluation (2000)

Evaluation of Rear Seat Passengers (2009)

Side Curtain Airbag evaluation (2008)

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Occupant Protection Against Electrical

Shock After Collision (2011)

New overall evaluation (2011)

Crash speed increased (2012)

’07 ’12 ’14

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Side Collision Test

- Test Speed: 55km/h

- DMB: 950kg

- Driver Seat

Neck Injury Test

- Test Speed (Δv）: 20.0km/h

- Driver / Passenger Seat

Pedestrian Head

Protection Test

- Test Speed: 35m/h

Pedestrian Leg Protection

Test

- Test Speed: 40km/h

- Flex-PLI

Offset Frontal Collision

Test

- Test Speed: 64km/h

- Driver Seat & Rear Seat

Full-overlap Frontal

Collision Test

- Test Speed: 55km/h

- Driver Seat & Front

Passenger Seat

Passenger Protection Performance Evaluation

Seat Belt Reminder Evaluation

Pedestrian Protection Performance Evaluation

This mark shows that high-voltage battery electrolyte leakage performance

and high-voltage battery fastening status has been met.

3. JNCAP tests for overall evaluation

Passenger Seat Belt

Reminder (8 points)

Overall evaluation for vehicle safety

Total score: 208 points

Occupant Protection

(100 points)

Pedestrian Protection

(100 points)

Passenger seat

belt reminder

Head

protection

Leg

protection

With the consideration of the pedestrian protection measures,

the new overall evaluation has been started since FY2011.

★★★★★ 5

4. Pedestrian Protection and Seat Belt Reminder

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NCAP suggests the effect to death toll reduction

year Highest remarks by the model No. of 5★star

2011 １７９.６pt（Lexus：ＣＴ200h） 3 models

2012 １８４.８pt (Mitsubishi; Outlander） 6 models

2013 １８９.７pt（TOYOTA; CROWN） 7 models*

Transition of the assessment highest evaluation (5* prize) in recent years

※including 1 mini-car model

Transition of the evaluation index of a

succeeding models (33 models)

5.30 5.35

5.69 5.63

4.4

4.6

4.8

5.0

5.2

5.4

5.6

5.8

6.0

運転席 助手席

passenger protection performance

旧車種 後継車種

3.67

4.00

1.8

2.2

2.6

3.0

3.4

3.8

4.2

4.6

5.0

pedestrian head protection performance

Succeeding model, improvement made based

on the result JNCAP.

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1,000

2,000

3,000

4,000

5,000

6,000

H元 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25

乗車中の死者数

（人）歩行中の死者数

（人）

Start of overall evaluation which weighs more on pedestrian tests

Start of pedestrian protectionperformance test

NCAP reflecting the actual traffic accident data

Average Score

yearPassenger

vehicleMini-car

2011 162.6pt 146.8pt

2012 174.2pt 156.0pt

2013 176.4pt 160.7pt

Starts assessment（passenger protection performance test）

start examination of enforcement

*Car occupants

deaths

*pedestrian

deaths

□ Conventinal □Succeeding model

5. Significance of NCAP

Driver seat Passenger seat

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6 . Results in 2013

HONDA N-WGNTOYOTA Crown Hybrid

- Pop-up bonnet system

- A backseat, a seat belt with a

pretension system, force limiter

system and seat belt reminder system

- A backseat, a seat belt with a

force limiter system and seat

belt reminder system

・5 Star Award ：7 models

・Top rating ：TOYOTA CROWN（189.7pt）

・Top rating in Mini-sized car ： HONDA N－WGN（178.8pt）

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★★★★★ 5

The spread of advanced safety technology which avoids a collision is indispensable.

Death toll

1,584人

平成

元年

平成

6年

平成

11年

平成

16年

平成

22年

件数 24,169 42,249 67,813 100,93 111,21

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20,000

40,000

60,000

80,000

100,000

120,000

Number of

accident

Death toll ratio of the elderly people; pedestrian

The number of accident what the elderly

people are the party concerned

Over 65 age

７０%

De

ath

toll b

y ro

ad

accid

ents

year

Reduction by the measures on advanced technology

Reduction by the measure on post-collision damage mitigation

The future road safety image by vehicle safety

measures

In order to prevent the damage of the elderly people, the pedestrian and the bicycle

driver, to prevent the accident itself is important.

（2013）

1989 1994 1999 2004 2010

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7. Our subject and measures

8. Roadmap for Advanced Safety Technology Assessment

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AEBS

Forward Collision

Warning System（car to

car）

Forward Collision

Warning System（car to

pedestrian）

LDWSLane Departure Warning

System

Others Around View Monitor etc.

2014 2015 2016

Test starts

Test starts

Making of test methods and

procedure

Making of test methods

and procedure

Test starts

Test starts

9. Progress of Advanced Safety Technology Assessment

1.The outline of Advanced Safety Technology Assessment

Steering committee decided in 2014

(1) Autonomous Emergency Braking System (AEBS)[test protocol]

(2) Lane Departure Warning System (LDWS) [test protocol]

(3) Overall evaluation of Advanced Safety Technology [evaluation and publication

method]

2. Implementation of AEBS and LDWS

(1) Test start from April 2014; Test result was released on October 21st, 2014.

(2) Use of a logo mark; Manufactures can release the result with the use of Logo.

【Logo】

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1 The promotion of NCAP is important in order to

reduce traffic accident.

2 JNCAP plays a significant role in Japan.

3 Assessment for Advanced safety technology is

lunched in 2014.

4 Collaboration with NCAPs in the world is

increasingly important.

5 NCAP could raise the safety consciousness of

car user all over the world in the future.

10. Conclusion

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